Spike
Spike holding up one of his favorite snacks
Other names	Spikey-Wikey
Kind	Dragon
Sex	Male
Fan voice(s)	Sakasa Jinei (Epic Pony Time) Max Gilardi (PONY.MOV) Saru4life (Turnabout Storm)

Spike is a Dragon and a main character in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. He plays the role of Twilight Sparkle's assistant, and has a semi-romantic relationship with Rarity in the show. His in-show personality traits almost always carries over into any fan labor depicting him.

Contents 1 Depictions in fan labor 2 Relationships 2.1 Non-romantic relationships 2.2 Shipping 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 References 5.1 Outliving references 5.2 Sparity references 5.3 SpikeBloom references 5.4 SweetieSpike references 5.5 TwiSpike references 5.6 Spike X Chrysalis shipping references 5.7 Other shipping references 6 Comments

Depictions in fan laborEdit

Spike has a wide display of fan labor dealing with the aspect of what would happen should Spike grow up. The fanfic The Centerpiece Of My Collection and Collection Of My Centerpiece both depict Spike as having grown very old, and lives in a cave with a statue of Rarity. Most of these fan works depict Spike as outliving all the ponies (apart from Princess Celestia and Princess Luna) by several centuries. Some of the fan works rather focus on Spike outliving Twilight and his other friends; these can either be presented in a predominantly bittersweet way^{[O 1]} or in a predominantly sad way.^{[O 2]} A comic by the mod of the Ask Twilight Sparkle ask blog features Twilight imagining Spike growing too large for the library, and flying off to be a dragon; when Twilight comes to this conclusion, she tearfully kisses the sleeping Spike on his forehead. The comic, in video form and put to the end credits music from the Hey Arnold! episode "Parents Day", was posted to Equestria Daily on September 19, 2011.

Many fanfics try to answer the question of who Spike's biological parents were and how Princess Celestia got his egg. In the fanfic The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds, he is revealed to be the grandson of the Spike from the G1 cartoon.

PONY.MOV features Spike as a stoner, and he mentions in MAGIC.MOV that his girlfriend has been trying to get him to quit weed.

RelationshipsEdit

Non-romantic relationshipsEdit

As Twilight Sparkle's assistant, and shown in the episode The Cutie Mark Chronicles to have been hatched from a dragon egg by her magic, Spike is often depicted as part of Twilight's family. Most often, their relationship is viewed as that of elder sister/younger brother. In Past Sins, he is mentioned to be like a kind of son to Twilight, though he insists that he would make a better uncle for Nyx, especially if Twilight gives him his "awesome mustache" back. In the story Mare-Do-Well: Regeneration, Twilight becomes very distraught after Spike's death, stressing how he was "just a baby" and was not responsible for his actions.

In some stories Spike is presented as Celestias adoptive son [1] [2]

ShippingEdit

Based on his in-show crush on her, Spike is most commonly shipped with Rarity, and many writers use this as the foundation for plot twists. They tend to get more explicit than the show is likely to, and specify whether Rarity actually feels the same towards Spike. In the comic Heart's Desire by Karzhanii, Spike's crush only grew into love because of a magical potion Rarity had given him. The number of fan works depicting Rarity loving Spike back has increased greatly since the episode Secret of My Excess. This particular shipping is most commonly called "Sparity".^{[R 1][R 2][R 3][R 4][R 5][R 6]}

He is also shipped with both Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, though usually not at the same time. These shippings are called “SpikeBloom” and “SweetieSpike” respectively.^{[A 1][A 2][A 3][S 1][S 2][S 3]} There are also occasions when he is shipped with all three Cutie Mark Crusaders.^{[OS 1]}

A less common shipping is Twilight Sparkle and Spike, known as TwiSpike or Spilight.^{[T 1][T 2][T 3][T 4]} In fan fiction, this ship is most prevalent in clopfics.^{[T 5][T 6]} If it appears in a story that isn't a clopfic, there is a good chance it is for a sex joke; for instance in the fic "Letters From a Disgruntled Friendship Student", Twilight Sparkle makes Spike her sex slave for a time.^{[T 7]} There are some instances in which Twilight falls for Spike at an older age.^{[T 8]}

Spike has also been known to be shipped with Queen Chrysalis.^{[C 1][C 2][C 3][C 4][C 5]}

GalleryEdit

Spike image gallery

See alsoEdit

• Spike on the FiM Wiki

ReferencesEdit

Outliving referencesEdit

1. ↑ Vix (2011-11-02). Growing Up. Fanfiction.net. Equestria Daily. Retrieved on 2012 November 24.
2. ↑ Larathin Bradley (2011-04-11). A Summer Twilight. Google Docs. Equestria Daily. Retrieved on 2012 November 24.

Sparity referencesEdit

1. ↑ MLP-FiM-Shipping's Sparity folder. deviantArt (2011-??-??). Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
2. ↑ FIMFiction's Sparity group. FIMFiction (201?-??-??). Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
3. ↑ Sparity-Club deviantArt group. deviantArt (2011-12-??). Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
4. ↑ Sparity tumblr. tumblr (201?-??-??). Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
5. ↑ Spike and Rarity Love deviantArt group. deviantArt (2011-??-??). Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
6. ↑ SleeplessBrony (2012-11-16). Like Fine Wine. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2012 November 27.

SpikeBloom referencesEdit

1. ↑ SpikeBloom deviantArt group. deviantArt (2011-??-??). Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
2. ↑ JimDimitri (2011-01-08). Spike and Applebloom's Date EqD post. Equestria Daily. Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
3. ↑ Purpleperson125 (2012-01-26). Applebloom and Spike. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2012 October 18.

SweetieSpike referencesEdit

1. ↑ MLP-FiM-Shipping's SweetieSpike folder. FIMFiction (2011-??-??). Retrieved on 2012 October 7.
2. ↑ Twinkletail (2011-05-06). Dragon Your Hooves. Equestria Daily. Retrieved on 2012 October 18.
3. ↑ The Rarispy (2011-11-27). The Sweetest Gem. FanFiction. Retrieved on 2012 October 18.

TwiSpike referencesEdit

1. ↑ Kevinsano (2011-06-16). TwiSpike. deviantArt. Retrieved on 2012 November 27.
2. ↑ Patrick4441 (2012-11-13). Spilight-FC deviantArt group. deviantArt. Retrieved on 2012 November 27.
3. ↑ Spilight-FC deviantArt group. deviantArt (2011-??-??). Retrieved on 2012 November 27.
4. ↑ ButtercupSaiyan (2012-06-21). TwiSpike kiss. deviantArt. Retrieved on 2012 November 27.
5. ↑ butterscotchsundae (2012-06-07). Wine for Two. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2012 November 24.
6. ↑ StreakTheFox (2012-06-05). The Dragon in Twilight. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2012 November 27.
7. ↑ milesprower06 (2012-10-10). Letters From a Disgruntled Friendship Student, The Cutie Pox. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2012 November 27.
8. ↑ paxtofettel (2012-02-04). Unrequited. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2012 December 6.

Spike X Chrysalis shipping referencesEdit

1. ↑ ss2sonic (2012-05-02). COMIC: Spike vs Chrysalis. deviantArt. Retrieved on 2013 February 26.
2. ↑ Crosis (2013-02-25). The Twisted Pony. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2013 February 26.
3. ↑ PromethiusDark (2012-07-30). Love-Unsought. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2013 February 26.
4. ↑ PromethiusDark (2013-04-24). The Dragon and the Changeling. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2013 February 26.
5. ↑ Kaille (2013-01-29). New Years Shipping Challenge: Spike & Chrysalis. FIMFiction. Retrieved on 2013 February 26.

Other shipping referencesEdit

1. ↑ RagingSemi. Dragonslayers. Pony Fiction Archive. Retrieved on 2012 November 24.